GENETIC AND LEARNING-FACTORS AS MAJOR SUBSTRATA FOR AGE-RELATED PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS - CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF A PSYCHOLOGY OF AGE

The various episodes of life significant for outbursts of different ps ychic disorders may give some facilitations of a better understanding of the underlying basic processes. Two of them are considered in sever al appearances genetic predisposition and conditioning processes. A ps ychology of age may be interpreted in a stronger sense as a collision of these two conditions. Surprisingly, the age at onset of some psychi c disorders is relatively early in life. This means that we should mak e every effort to comprehend vulnerability in terms of biological as w ell as psychological compounds earlier; it could carry on to surrender the dichotomy of biological and psychological factors and to combine different standpoints in a general view which inaugurates therapeutic and prophylactic consequences, too.